Henry Carrington Lancaster

Henry Carrington Lancaster ( born November 10, 1882 in Richmond, † January 29, 1954 in Baltimore) was an American linguist and literary historian.

Life and work

Lancaster made ​​a Master's degree in 1903 from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and completed his doctorate in 1907 for a PhD in Romance Languages ​​at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He first taught at Amherst College, from 1919 (succeeding Edward Cook Armstrong ) for many years at Johns Hopkins University, where he published in the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Modern Language Notes issued. He was honorary doctorates from the universities Algiers ( 1944) and Paris Sorbonne ( 1946).

Lancaster has presented to more than 5,000 pages, the history of the French theater from 1552 to 1792.

Lancaster was in 1913 married to Helen Clark Converse, daughter of the economist John Bates Clark.

Works (selection)

  • The French tragi - comedy. Its origin and development from 1552 to 1628, Baltimore 1907 ( PhD Dissertation ), 1966
  • A history of French dramatic literature in the seventeenth century, 9 vols, Baltimore 1929-1942, New York 1966
  • Sunset. A history of Parisian drama in the load- years of Louis XIV, 1701-1715, Baltimore 1945, Westport 1976, 365 pages (with Additions and Corrections to " A History of French Dramatic Literature in the Seventeenth Century. " )
  • French Tragedy in the Time of Louis XV and Voltaire 1715-1774, 2 vols, Baltimore, 1950, 662 pages
  • French Tragedy in the Reign of Louis XVI and the Early Years of the French Revolution, 1774-1792, Baltimore, 1953, 181 pages
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